Cigar-cell series



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0. L. PARMENTER.

CIGAR CELL SERIES.

Patented Feb. 1, 1898.

q qkkmeam UNITED "STATES" I PATENT OFFICE.

' ORVILLE L. 'PARMENTER, OF MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN.

CIGAR-CELL SERIES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 598,483, dated February1, 1898. Application filed December 10, 1894. Serial No. 531,368. (Nomodel.)

Toall whom it may concerns Be it known that I, ORVILLE L. PARMENTER, acitizen of the United States, residing at Milwaukee, in the county ofMilwaukee an dState of Wisconsin, have invented new and usefulImprovements in CigarOel] Series, of which the following is aspecification.

This invention relates to certain improvements in paper cigar pockets orcells.

The object of the invention is to provide a series of detachable-papercigar pockets or cells of an improved COI'lStlllCLlOn, so that all thepockets of the series can be filled with cigars of the same or differentsizes or shapes, and one or more of the pockets can be easily andquickly detached with their contained cigars without injury to thepockets detached or to those remaining in the series, and. so that eachpocket detached will be intact and in perfect condition to hold andprotect its contained cigar in the pocket or elsewhere.

The invention consists in certain novel features of construction and inarrangements and combinations of parts more fully and particularlydescribed and pointed out hereinafter.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a rear elevation ofa series of the .connected cigar-pockets. Fig. 2 is a front elevationthereof. Fig. 3 is an edge view of a pocket. Fig. 4 is-a top plan of aseries of the, connected pockets, several of the pockets containingcigars and the remaining pockets shown folded .or collapsed. Fig. 5 isadetail perspective view of one of the pockets detached and containingacigar. Fig. 6 is a detail View of the paper blank from which a singlepocket is folded The series of pockets is composed of a'sin glebacking-sheet of suitable paper having arallel transverse e 1 pally-spaced lin es of perorations formed therein, with a series of parallelclosely-arranged independently-formed paper cigar-pockets cemented onone side of the sheet, with the. lines of perforations through the sheetbetween the pockets and separating them.

In the drawings, a is the single elongated rectangular paper strip,sheet, or backing of the same length as the series of pockets to beformed, but of slightly greater width than the length of a pocket. Thissheet has the transverse lines a of perforations usually formed thereinbefore the pockets are applied to the sheet. These lines ofperforationsare formed parallel with each other and equally spaced and preferablyextend completely across the backing-sheet.

Each pocketl) is formed of a single rectangular sheet of flexible paperfolded by suitable means to form the closed front of the pocket, the twocollapsible sides, and the rear wall, where the two ends of the paperare brought together a or overlapped at b and pasted or cementedthroughout their lengths to' the backing-sheet in the space between twoadjacent lines of perforations therein.

The two sides of each pocket are rendered collapsible by each having asingle inward angular bend or fold Z) throughout its length, so that thepocket can be entirely collapsed and can be easily distended to its fullcapacity by the insertion of a cigar at the upper open end of thepocket. Each pocket is thus formed of its own separate sheet of paperand is entirely independent of and formed separately from the remainingpockets of the series, thepockets of the series bcin g connected only bythe single thickness of the backingsheet. p

The pockets are arranged parallel to each other and closely together,with their edges touching or almost touching when the pockets arecollapsed, so that they are separated only by the lines of perforationsthrough the single thickness of backing-sheet between them and so thateach pocket occupies the full space between the lines of perforations ateach edge thereof. After all the pockets of a series have been pasted orcemented on the single backing-sheet the short lower 1011-. gitudinaledge of the btCklllfrSllBGll is folded over the lower ends of thepockets, which are pressed tightly closed, and is pasted or cemented tothe outer faces thereof topermanently close the lower ends of thepockets.

By reason of the single backing-sheet and the fact that the perforationsextend through i this sheet only and can be formed therein before thepockets are applied thereto, and as each pocket is formed independentlyof its own sheetor paper, the series of cigar-pockets described can bemost rapidly and economically manufactured by maehinery and placed onthe market at a very low price; also, as-

each pocket is formed independently of its own sheet and as the pocketsare all connected by a single sheet perforated between the pockets oneor more pockets can be easily and quickly detached along the perforatedsingle thickness of paper connecting the pockets without the leastdanger of tearing through a pocket or in any other way injuring thepocket detached or those remaining in the series, particularly in-viewof the fact that the ing pockets; also, each pocket when detached is inperfect condition and capable of receiving and protecting a cigar, whichcan be easily inserted therein, as the folds b permit easy and readyopening of the month of the pocket,

- and as the ends of the sheet forming the pocket are pasted to thesection of the backing-sheet, making several thicknesses at the back ofthe pocket, so that a single detached pocket is stiifened so as to be ofutility for the purpose stated.

Having thus fully described my invention,

what I claim asnew, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the UnitedStates, is-

1. A series of paper cigar-pockets composed of a single paperbacking-sheet formed with the transverse parallel lines of perforations,and the series of independently-formed detachable pockets arrangedparallel witheach other on one side of the sheet and between the linesof perforations, each pocket formed of its own sheet of paper folded toform the closed front, collapsible sides, and the rear wall where thetwo ends of the sheet are pasted to the backing-sheet between'two linesof perforations therein so that each pocket has its rear wall formed ofseveral thicknesses and the several pockets are connected only by theperforated portions of the single backingsheet, substantially'asdescribed.

2. As an article of manufacture, a series of pockets, each constructedof an independent piece of paper, and pasted side by side on one surfaceonly of a single sheet of paper constituting the only backing for saidseries of pockets, said sheet being perforated between each pair of saidpockets, substantially as described.

3. As an article of manufacture, a sheet or series of cigar-pockets madeup of a paper backing-sheet on one side only of the pockets formed withseries of transverse, parallel, equally-spaced lines of perforations,and individually separate pockets arranged on one side of the sheetbetween the lines of perforations, each pocket formed of a single sheetof paper folded to form the front and sides with its two endsbroughttogether, or approximately so,'and pasted on the backing,tl1elower end of the backing-sheet pasted over and closing the lower ends ofthe pockets, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in the presence of twowitnesses.

' ORVILLE L. PARMENTER.

Witnesses:

Ms. B. ERWIN, C. LLROESCH.

